Announcements
HP selects TUM Informatics Professor Alfons Kemper for a 2008 Innovation Research Award
Technische Universität München was selected as one of 34 universities in the world to receive a 2008 HP Labs Innovation Research Award, which is designed to encourage open collaboration with HP Labs resulting in mutually beneficial, high-impact research.
Technische Universität München will collaborate with HP Labs, HP’s central research arm, on a research initiative focused on managing workloads on business intelligence (BI) data stores, which is part of HP Labs' Operational Business Intelligence Supercomputer project. Professor Alfons Kemper, author of the winning proposal titled „Workload Management for an Operational Business Intelligence Supercomputer“, and a professor in the department of informatics, will lead the collaboration project with HP Labs. “Around the world, HP partners with the best and the brightest in industry and academia to drive open innovation and set the agenda for breakthrough technologies that are designed to change the world”, said Prith Banerjee, senior vice president of research at HP and director of HP Labs. “HP Labs’ selection of Technische Universität München for a 2008 Innovation Award demonstrates outstanding achievement and will help accelerate HP Labs’ global research agenda in pursuit of scientific breakthroughs.” HP reviewed more than 450 proposals from 200 universities in 28 countries on a range of topics within the five principal research themes at HP Labs – intelligent infrastructure, sustainability, information explosion, dynamic cloud services and content transformation. A key element of each award will be on-campus support for one graduate student researcher, who will also be eligible to apply to the HP Labs internship program in 2009. HP Labs Innovation Research Program
IBM Faculty Award for TUM Informatics Professor Martin Bichler
Prof. Martin Bichler is recipient the 2008 IBM Faculty Award for his contributions in IT Service Management.
The IBM Faculty Awards is a competitive worldwide program and is endowed with 40,000 USD. IBM intends to foster collaboration between researchers at leading universities worldwide. Martin Bichler and his team develop new decision models and methods to support tasks such as as admission control, change managment, performance prediction, server consolidation, and rule-based service level management. IBM Faculty Award
Spin-Off Team from TUM Informatics department awarded in the Munich Businessplan Competition (MBPW)
The team SurgicEye with Prof. Dr. Nassir Navab, Joerg Traub, Thomas Wendler, and Ivan Billy were awarded with the 2nd place for their business model in the category marathon (i.e. > 18 month to market, > 1 million Euro investment). The products of SurgicEye will improve the effectiveness of cancer surgery providing new imaging data and navigation.
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TUM Students Graduating in Informatics – Survey Proves Excellent Career Opportunities
In November and December 2005 the »Bayerische Staatinstitut für Hochschulforschung und Hochschulplanung« interviewed alumni of Bavarian universities (academic year 2003/04). The results of the alumni panel of TUM Informatics is available now. Here are the main results:- All of the TUM Informatics alumni who participated in the survey hold a job.
- 20% of them started immediately in executive or leading positions.
- TUM Informatics alumni start with the highest salary compared with other TUM alumni.
- The absolvents of Informatics at TUM are—in accordance with those of Mechanical Engineering— most satisfied with their first occupation. This is particular true with respect to job content, position, and salary.
- 95% of the TUM Informatics alumni would recommend prospective students to go for studies at TUM Informatics.
BITKOM: 20 000 open positions in the IT sector!
Presentation of the study (PDF, 522 MB)2007 Intel + UC Berkeley Technology Entrepreneurship Challenge
First Prize Winner: Navaris Medical, Germany: Business_Creators@UnternehmerTUM
(L.t.r) Dr. William A. Swope (Intel); Thomas Wendler (Navaris Medical);
Prof. Jerome S. Engel (UC Berkeley); Eric Soehngen (Navaris Medical); Dr.
Martina Ruth (Intel), Prof. Mark Harris (Intel)
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Doctorands of TUM's Informatics Department developed the TechnologyOn November 15, 2007 the German Life-Science spin-off venture Navaris Medical, founded by entrepreneurs and biomedical researchers of the Technische Universität München (TUM), won the 3rd annual business plan competition at the University of California in Berkeley, with more than 1000 international participants. Navaris Medical is a spin-off project of the Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures (CAMP) that introduces a breakthrough method in breast cancer surgery. For further information, please visit: |
Access to 100 Millionen Dollar Venture Capital – Award for TUM Computer Scientists through the Business-Competition at the University of Oxford
Instead of winning the prize money of 5000 Pounds for the business-competition at the University of Oxford, Karlheinz Toni (Ph.D. student at the TUM Informatics department), Richard Schreiber (student of Applied Informatics (TUM)), and Thomas Whitfield (Ph.D. student for Biochemistry at Oxford) received a blank check for a 100 million dollar fond. Two of the five jurors, Dan Wagner und Sháá Wasmund, were so convinced by the business idea, that they provided the team with the »whatever it takes« support. If the
development of the business idea requires it, the young entrepreneurs have unlimited access to the capital through BrightStation Ventures.
The Idea: Design the time—Creation of a virtual reflection of time
At a website, everybody can publish a personal moment for one dollar; this moment is linked to a specific point in time: the first kiss, the birth of a child—anything that personally affects you. Whether it is funny, sad, or moving—a potpourri of events and experiences is created, each at a specific time.
Furthermore, historic facts will be inserted into the website, which will put the personal experiences in a global, historic context. This is how global history can be newly written and experienced.
The creators sell a piece of the past, the present, and the future. The investors believe this business idea to have a similar potential as other successful Web2.0-applications, such as YouTube or MySpace.
However, we're not quite there yet. Currently, the webportal at www.design-the-time.de is up and running. In another two months' time, the enabling technology in the background will be implemented as well. Then, anyone can place his piece of history on the web.
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